{"id":12274,"date":"2017-10-12T16:10:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T21:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12274"},"modified":"2017-10-12T16:10:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T21:10:31","slug":"word-of-the-day-248","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/10\/12\/word-of-the-day-248\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Luthier<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b0\/Lute_%28by_Princess_Ruto%2C_2013-02-11%29.jpg\/150px-Lute_%28by_Princess_Ruto%2C_2013-02-11%29.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"234\" \/>A <b>luthier<\/b> (<span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups noexcerpt\"><a title=\"Help:IPA\/English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/English\">\/<span title=\"\/\u02c8\/: primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"'l' in 'lie'\">l<\/span><span title=\"\/u\u02d0\/: 'oo' in 'goose'\">u\u02d0<\/span><span title=\"'t' in 'tie'\">t<\/span><span title=\"\/i\u02d0\/ or \/\u026a\/: 'y' in 'happy'\">i<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0259r\/: 'er' in 'letter'\">\u0259r<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span> <a title=\"Help:Pronunciation respelling key\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key\"><small title=\"English pronunciation respelling\"><i><b>LOO<\/b>-ti-\u0259r<\/i><\/small><\/a>)<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luthier#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> is someone who builds or repairs <a title=\"String instrument\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/String_instrument\">string instruments<\/a> generally consisting of a neck and a sound box. The word &#8220;luthier&#8221; comes from the <a title=\"French language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_language\">French<\/a> word <i><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikt:en:luth\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/en:luth#French\">luth<\/a><\/i>, which means <a title=\"Lute\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lute\">lute<\/a>. A luthier was originally a maker of lutes, but the term now includes makers of stringed instruments such as the <a title=\"Violin making and maintenance\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Violin_making_and_maintenance\">violin<\/a> or <a title=\"Classical guitar making\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Classical_guitar_making\">classical guitar<\/a>. A luthier does not make harps or pianos, as these require different skills and construction methods because their strings are secured to a frame. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luthier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This word was mentioned by my Arts Editor during lunch today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luthier: A luthier (\/\u02c8lu\u02d0ti\u0259r\/ LOO-ti-\u0259r)[1] is someone who builds or repairs string instruments generally consisting of a neck and a sound box. The word &#8220;luthier&#8221; comes from the French word luth, which means lute. A luthier was originally a maker of lutes, but the term now includes makers of stringed \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/10\/12\/word-of-the-day-248\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12276,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274\/revisions\/12276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}